Generic Alarm Reporter for NETwork

Proactive fault detection and prompt corrective actions are keys to avoid costly downtimes and insure optimal user satisfaction through under control SLAs. This objective is vital in the today highly competitive environment.

The last years have seen a huge evolution in the relationships between the telecommunications operators and their customers, mainly due to the progressive loss of the historical monopolies and the massive entry on the market of alternative operators. Henceforth, the conquest and the development of the customers' loyalty are strongly tied with a global cost reduction, and a rapid development of new services and immediate solutions in case of technical problems.

Nevertheless, the aforementioned principles cannot be implemented if the following preconditions are not satisfied:

	A complete, uniformed and continuously synchronised view on the network state
	Powerful analytical tools able to filter and correlates information to only keep the pertinent ones
	The ability to configure the network from a single application, whatever the network element type
	An accurate reporting on events history and decision taken on the system

MR-GARNET stores a representation of the network in its relational DB. It ensures an easy and rapid consultation of the network state and high information availability, even in case of a loss of connection with a network element.

Filtering & Correlation
Alarm Summary
Logging
Alarm Qualification

 

Key advantages

The MicroResearch MR-GARNET solution is a multi-vendor software application which helps you to support your alarm handling process (of your fault management chain) in the transmission domain; it collects, translates and interprets the network events in order to generate alarms for the OSS.
It offers value-adding benefits including:

Increase Quality of Service	No message loss during the mediation. High Availability and Mission Critical architecture compliant. Detection at the root of the errors.
Considerably reduce your Operational Costs	By providing a single and uniformed interface to manage the faults in heterogeneous networks, MR-GARNET is a powerful driver to reduce the costs in terms of fault detection, repair time and network quality reporting. Furthermore, MR-GARNET 'dynamic reconfiguration' principle insures an excellent availability of the application.
Evolve as your business grow	Customer network constantly evolves in terms of new releases or new type of network elements. GARNET, by proposing a set of powerful and user friendly customisation tools, frees operators of costly new implementations. This is explained on the following schema:

Key features:

MR-GARNET can easily be plugged into your existing TMN infrastructure, since it integrates a wide variety of communication protocols of the market, such as CORBA, Q3, SNMP…

	Smooth integration in the large chains of fault management.
	Based on international standard, MR-GARNET proposes the following IDLs: ITU- based 3GPP Nevertheless, the design of the application made the IDLs on the top of MR-GARNET very adaptable to any customer requirement (Meta data based).
	Open architecture, based on a standard middleware (CORBA). This decoupling between the application and the running environment permits a great capacity of integration of new components (plugs on the bus).
	Robust and Reliable, MR-GARNET is able to: Interface a large amount of NE's or EM's Support important traffic load See its components shared transparently among a certain amount of machines
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